Promise and Pragmatism: AI in Clinical Medicine

Promise and Pragmatism: AI in Clinical Medicine

What you'll learn

Roy Smythe, MD, is the Global Chief Medical Officer for Strategy and Partnerships at Philips Healthcare – a company working aggressively to implement advanced computing into the clinical workflow to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of care delivery. This webinar will review the use of AI in clinical medicine – discussing what is hyped, what is in current use, and what is promised moving forward. Technical, regulatory and business model impediments to moving more quickly will be discussed.

During this webinar, you’ll learn:

How to distinguish the hype around the current use of AI in medicine, versus its actual use

The impediments that are keeping us from making more progress in the use of advanced computing technique such as “AI”

The revolutionary changes to healthcare delivery in the future if we are able to overcome these impediments

Roy Smythe

Global Chief Medical Officer for Strategy and Partnerships Philips

Bio info: In his role as Chief Medical Officer for HISS, Roy's clinical and business knowledge ensures Philips informatics...

In his role as Chief Medical Officer for HISS, Roy's clinical and business knowledge ensures Philips informatics solutions support customer requirements for optimized care paths and improved patient outcomes. His personal goal has always been to contribute to meaningful change in healthcare delivery.

Roy is the former Medical Director for Innovation for Baylor Scott & White Healthcare (2011) - an integrated delivery system. Prior to this he was The Roney Endowed Chair and Professor of Surgery, Medicine and Molecular Medicine (2006), and also Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Baylor Scott & White Health System and for the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine (2004) - the most comprehensive health science center in Texas. He began his clinical career as a surgeon and translational scientist at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Roy holds a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Biology from Baylor University, Waco, Texas, and a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from Texas A&M University School of Medicine, College Station, Texas.

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